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All Characters Accidentally Deleted in MMORPG

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

WTF!!!??? I could not imagine if this were to happen in World of Warcraft. That would be total devastation.

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World of Warcraft Spyware

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

I knew about this previously, but thought I would point it out nonetheless. I do think they should approach this differently, but others will argue that they are not storing your personal info, just comparing hashes. So you can look at it both ways.

Blizzard is looking for more than just your $15/month.

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Monitoring network traffic with Ruby and Pcap

Friday, October 7th, 2005

A very nice article involving Ruby and the Pcap library. The end result is an AIM sniffer.

Pretty neat stuff from the looks of it.

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HOWTO: Unlock the Linksys

Friday, October 7th, 2005

So I find this today:

This site gives instructions for “unlocking” the Linksys “Vonage” PAP2 units. You can get these units at “Staples” for free after the mail in rebate. Find out how to use these units with other services.

Pretty cool, but how is it useful?

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